Obama on America and the World — President Obama's hair is definitely grayer these days, and no doubt trying to manage foreign policy in a world of increasing disorder accounts for at least half of those gray hairs. (The Tea Party can claim the other half.)

Obama: No timetable for Iraq airstrikes — U.S. airstrikes have “successfully destroyed arms and equipment” that terrorists with ISIS could have used against the Kurdish regional capital of Irbil in Iraq, U.S. President Barack Obama said Saturday. — “We feel confident” …

Preventing a Slaughter in Iraq — The catastrophe of Iraq has been growing steadily worse for weeks, but by Thursday, it became impossible for the United States and other civilized nations to ignore it. Iraq's bloodthirsty Sunni extremists were threatening the extermination of tens …

Feinstein: ‘It takes an army to defeat an army’ — The head of the Senate Intelligence Committee on Friday said the extremist group the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS or ISIL) must be confronted forcefully by the U.S., though she stopped short of calling for boots on the ground.

Left frets over Iraq mission creep — The president's expansion of the U.S. military mission in Iraq is conjuring up two dirty little words for anti-war Democrats: Mission creep. — Just two months ago, when Obama announced he was going to send up to 300 American troops to Iraq …

Obama Outlines His Post-Presidency — With prospects for major legislation nonexistent, Obama is looking to plant seeds that he hopes his successors can cultivate. — President Obama spent much of his first term fending off criticism that he hadn't done enough for the black community …